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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>Essie, you're on an AOL
email address .... if that was the same address you're expecting email to go to
... then you've got a huge possibility for inbound email to be
blocked.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>I work at an ISP and I
deal with blocked messages to aol all the time. Including messages between
family members that in no way would have been submitted as spam.. but yet AOL
still flagged the message and refused to deliver it.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>On the issue of rescues
and money.. do we really want this to be hashed out again? </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>In just this past week,
the NCBR ? posted a hound they had taken in she's in need of 2500 in surgery to
correct a back leg and hips? ... this hound was flown by a volunteer ...
flown!! If everyone thought gas was so high.. try plane fuel..
</SPAN><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>There has been other posts in the past
month, a new rescue that put up a "First Giving" page.. and recall they posted
photo copies of the vet bills.. are those vet bills false? When any of us
takes our hounds to the vet for all shots, oh and for de-man-ifying or
de-girl-ifying the hound, do we get out the door for less than 100?</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>Not to mention that any
503c charity has to keep books and records to hand the gov't ... there are very
very very few that I've heard of that actually have "paid" positions (actually
I've only heard of TWO rescues)... any 503c should have books that an accountant
can pour through to find how the rescue barely scrapes by ... but this seems to
escape those who question "where does 250 for that younger dog go" or why only
150 for an 8 year old hound... didn't that 8 year old have lots more
done?</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>And even if the hound is
"healthy" ... they still have to get shots .. shots might only be 20 bucks.. but
there's the Vetman's fee 25 to 50 bucks, and if there's anything else they
do... I know my local rescue also does dentals.. DENTALS !!! That's 200 a pop
easy!</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>So the money issue...
really.. beating a dead horse.. </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>Now to the point of
Rescue Denials.. I've never heard of a rescue going out of its way to deny
someone without cause. Not that it couldn't happen.. but I've never heard
the case made that was so blindingly clear that there was someone in a rescue
that said "don't adopt to this person cause they have red hair" ... or "they
speak funny" or any other of a million reasons the could make up.. </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>And even if *they* did..
its not a company that you can sue to get the rights to adopt a hound from
... ie rights of refusal ... no matter how petty they might have been.. the
person that wants to adopt pretty much always has options.. *unless there is
legal recourse sought like someone who's an animal abuser and the rescue goes
and gets court orders against that person ... but that's another side side issue
... AND PLEASE I have no idea why you may have been denied ...</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>It comes down not to who
will get you what you want.. but will they allow an animal that they have taken
responsibility for.. be adopted out to someone. Its a big difference
between anyone regardless of who buying something, and giving up responsibility
for something you've worked hard to protect....</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>I know that when I die,
if I have three hounds like I do now, that I want to make sure they are
taken care of.. I would turn in my grave to know they go to someone that *I*
wouldn't consider worthy.. and I might just be the type to not like someone for
their hair color.. but if I could see fault in others for *my* hounds.. why
can't people understand that rescues have the same issue.. they have spent time
on some of these hounds, or time working resources or trying to drum up support,
and everything else.. they may just not want to let them go.. </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>Anyway.. very few rescues
could really be faulted for denials.. I worried *I* would be denied when I went
to adopt... but thankfully I wasn't.. and then my helping with rescue let them
get to know me more.. and it didn't scare them off either! LOL ... but really..
money is one thing.. its anonymous, even the richest man on earth could give
millions to a rescue.. but if they aren't worth having a hound.. I'd still deny
them.. so money isn't everything.. </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>and even then.. if the
person had the money they could just buy what they wanted .... or in the case
of a rescue hound.. shelters have them all over.. and the adoption fee at a
shelter is minimal to say the least.. only thing smaller than shelter adoption
fees is the amount of background checking they do before handing over an animal
to the adopter.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>Please don't' misconstrue
this as an attack... its mostly just a defense of the issues.. unless we were
each other, and unless we were in those positions, we'd have no way to fully say
and or explain what happened.. and its at that point we all can be happy that we
have something ... and no disrespect to anyone that has lost their hound, as we
know and share in their pain every day we look at our own, or the next time we
loose what we have.. and so goes the call like others.. to have all of us get
along.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>I'm sorry people feel
slighted ... I'm sorry that we all have opinions .... but we have to respect our
differences rather than beating people about the head and shoulders for them..
and I'm sorry I have to post like this ... but it seems every once in a while
someone does ... just to make sure the issues aren't one sided.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>-Robert</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=457311813-14012009></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=457311813-14012009> >></SPAN><FONT
face=Tahoma><B>Subject:</B> [Dailydrool] Nasty on the drool<BR></FONT><FONT
id=role_document><SPAN class=457311813-14012009> >></SPAN>Now, I post
only sympathy notes..Why? because a lot of my <SPAN
class=457311813-14012009> </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>>> </SPAN>posts got returned to
me by the moderators...<SPAN class=457311813-14012009> </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>>></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>>> </SPAN><SPAN
class=457311813-14012009>...</SPAN> and also for a long while in the beginning
of droopy rescue..sending <SPAN
class=457311813-14012009> </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>>> </SPAN>them money monthly even
when it was a hardship..it was graciously <SPAN
class=457311813-14012009> </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>>> </SPAN>accepted. BUTt
WHEN IT CAME TO TRYING TO ADOPT ANOTHER<SPAN
class=457311813-14012009> </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>>> </SPAN>BASSET....<SPAN
class=457311813-14012009> </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>>></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>>> </SPAN>I've been kind of bitter at
the drool ever since... not even ohio basset,<SPAN
class=457311813-14012009> </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>>> </SPAN>Brood, or ABC offered
to help us find another basset... All of these <SPAN
class=457311813-14012009> </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>>> </SPAN>rescues exist and want
money...and more money...but what do they <SPAN
class=457311813-14012009> </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>>> </SPAN>do with the
bassets? <SPAN class=457311813-14012009> </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>>></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=457311813-14012009>>> </SPAN>Now, wonder if the
moderators will let me post this one.</DIV>
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